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Ambrose Bierce is Missing : And Other Historical Mysteries /
What constitutes historical truth is often subject to change. Through ingenious detection, the accepted wisdom of one generation may become the discredited legend of another -- or vice versa. In this wide- ranging study of historical investigation, former detective Joe Nickell allows the reader to l...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
1992.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : history and the investigative approach
- Ancient riddles : the mystery of the Nazca lines
- Biographical enigmas : Ambrose Bierce is missing
- Hidden identity : unmasking a Nazi monster
- Fakelore : Swift's lost silver mine
- Questioned artifacts : D. Boone riddles
- Suspect documents : Lincoln's Bixby letter
- Lost texts : Cooke's "missing" edition
- Obscured sources : Hawthorne's "Veiled lady"
- Scientific challenges : pseudoscience and the Shroud
- Afterword : some lessons learned.